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by dvt 8mo ago
I think people are just getting lost in the sauce. Forget all the "singularity" or "AGI" nonsense. LLMs are genuinely useful automation machines. They're fantastic for going from semi-structured data to structured d
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by dvt 8mo ago
I think one of the major problems with the current incarnation of AI solutions is that they're extremely brittle and hacked-together. It's a fun exciting time, especially for us technical people, but normies just want stuff to &qu
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by dvt 8mo ago
Ah true, missed that! Still a bit cumbersome & lazy imo, I'm a fan of just shipping with that capability out-of-the-box (Huggingface's Candle is fantastic for downloading/syncing/running models locally).
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by dvt 8mo ago
So weird/cool/interesting/cyberpunk that we have stuff like this in the year of our Lord 2026: ├── MEMORY.md # Long-term knowledge (auto-loaded each session) ├── HEARTBEAT.md # Autonomous task queue
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by dvt 8mo ago
This is the best way to build products imo. I'm like this, and I've been accused of being very "vibes-based." However, that's a way more tractable way of shipping stuff instead of "well Jim said he wants X, but
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by dvt 8mo ago
Miss posts like this on HN, thanks for the great write-up! I tried to launch a hardware thing like 10 years ago[1], but couldn't raise enough money. Fun experience nonetheless. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-ga
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by dvt 9mo ago
> Isn't responding with useful details about how to make a bomb a "high-utility" response to the query "how do i make a bomb" - ? I know what the words of that sentence mean and I know what the difference between
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by dvt 9mo ago
You can call me crazy or you can attack my points: do you think the first example logically follows? Do you think the second isn't wordy? Just to make sure I'm not insane, I just copy pasted the article into Pangram, and lo and
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by dvt 9mo ago
One AI smell is "it's not just X <stop> it's Y." Can be done with semicolons, em dashes, periods, etc. It's especially smelly when Y is a non sequitur. For example what, exactly, is a "high-utility respon
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by dvt 9mo ago
Apart from the article being generally just dumb (like, of course you can circumvent guardrails by changing the raw token stream; that's.. how models work), it also might be disrespecting the reader. Looks like it's, at least in p
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by dvt 9mo ago
I liked em dashes before they were cool—and I always copy-pasted them from Google. Sucks that I can't really do that anymore lest I be confused for a robot; I guess semicolons will have to do.
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by dvt 9mo ago
I know you're replying to a brand new (likely troll) account, but I'm also very confused by this and would be curious to learn if there's any truth to it. I personally don't really see what a Von Neumann machine has to d
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by dvt 9mo ago
Your brain processes (visual) information at a resolution of >= 80ms[1]. The idea that you can tell the difference between 10ms or 50ms latency when typing is simply untrue (both events will appear instantaneous). I say this as someone t
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by dvt 9mo ago
The AI doom and gloom is so weird, and it's just turning into a bizarre echo chamber. AI is orders of magnitude more useful and transformative than Facebook was in 2005, and Meta is now one of the most valuable companies on the planet.
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by dvt 9mo ago
What is your use case that you see UI lag between vscode and sublime? Honestly, I feel zero difference between sublime/vscode/vi. Vscode arguably takes longer to boot up, but that only happens like once a day so it's not a bi
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by dvt 9mo ago
Implementing an allowlist is pretty common practice for just about anything that accesses external stuff. Heck, Windows Firewall does it on every install. It's a bit of friction for a lot of security.
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by dvt 9mo ago
> Since the original point was about solving all prompt injection vulnerabilities... All prompt injection vulnerabilities are solved by being careful with what you put in your prompt. You're basically saying "I know `eval` is
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by dvt 9mo ago
It's trivial to not let an AI agent use curl. Or, better yet, only allow specific domains to be accessed.
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by dvt 9mo ago
Everything in an LLM is "evaluated," so I'm not sure where the confusion comes from. We need to be careful when we use `eval()` and we need to be careful when we tell LLMs secrets. The Claude issue above is trivially solv
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by dvt 9mo ago
We do, and the comparison is apt. We are the ones that hydrate the context. If you give an LLM something secure, don't be surprised if something bad happens. If you give an API access to run arbitrary SQL, don't be surprised if
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by dvt 9mo ago
I had no idea we even had an `Invalid Date` object, that's legitimately insane. Some other fun ones: new Date(Math.E) new Date(-1) are both valid dates lol.
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The Agent Fallacy(noemititarenco.com)
4 points by dvt 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dvt 9mo ago
Fully agree that pushing OSI is just posturing. After all, Amazon/Google/Facebook have made literal billions by commercializing open source software. I release stuff on MIT all the time (for things I'm okay with people poachi
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by dvt 9mo ago
Hacker News has become weirdly anti-hacker in the last 5 or so years, so please keep building stuff and keep posting it. This is literally what HN is supposed to be. The "AI slop" tirade is just bottom of the barrel bandwaggoning
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by dvt 9mo ago
It’s the typical “engineer thinking they’re smarter than everyone else” trope. From my experience, engineers fall squarely in the middle of the bell curve. The AI hate is just used as justification, so I don’t even take it that seriously. A
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by dvt 10mo ago
This conversation isn't about Google's backbone, it's about Pike's and Hickey's. It's easy to moralize when you've got nothing to lose and the lecture holds much less water.
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by dvt 10mo ago
Where do you think his "distinguished engineer" salary came from, I wonder? There are plenty of people working on OSS in their free time (or in poverty, for that matter).
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by dvt 10mo ago
This is all just cynical bandwagoning. Google/Facebook/Etc. have done provable irreparable damage to the fabric of society via ads/data farming/promulgating fake news, but now that it's in vogue to hate on AI as an
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Why Your AI "Fine-Tuning" Budget Is a Total Waste of Capital in 2026(noemititarenco.com)
2 points by dvt 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dvt 10mo ago
"Venerate" is a technical term here, so using the dictionary definition is incorrect.

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